378: Bugger All (with Isabelle Burke)
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You might do nothing. You might do zilch. But if you do bugger all, you're really doing the minimum.
But wait — how did the phrase bugger all become a negative, in the complete absence of any negative words?
There are larger forces at work here, and Dr Isabelle Burke joins us to explain them on this episode of Talk the Talk.